Brian DeChesare

MAY 3, 2023

When I started offering financial modeling training , I never expected to get questions about a methodology like the Dividend Discount Model (DDM). It can be useful for certain companies, such as power and utility firms and midstream (pipeline) operators in oil & gas … …but it’s also much harder to set up and use than a standard DCF.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 13, 2022

It has been my practice for the last two decades to take a detailed look at how risk varies across countries, once at the start of the year and once mid-year. Country Risk: Currency and Cost of Capital As a final part to this post, to see the shifts in country risk that we have seen in 2022, let’s start with an assessment of risk free rates.

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Andrew Stolz

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The efforts start to pay off as the operating profit achieves a higher level. Both ROIC and ROE could climb up to 20% in 21E. Significant increases in inventories and receivables as sales volume likely to ramp up as shown by the strong backlog. The company started to reduce its long-term debt. Ratios – Terex Corporation.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In this post, I will start by looking at the role that hurdle rates play in running a business, with the consequences of setting them too high or too low, and then look at the fundamentals that should cause hurdle rates to vary across companies. More on that issue in a future data update post.)

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Benzinga

MAY 11, 2022

Several demonstrations of the Guardian XT robot Beta units to partners and customers have taken place in Sarcos' facility since the start of the year and the company continues to expect that Guardian XT robot Beta units will be placed with customers for field tests in mid-2022. million for 2022.

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Brian DeChesare

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

People usually start this discussion by comparing S&T exits to investment banking exit opportunities and saying that S&T exit options are “worse.”. Of all the hedge fund strategies , global macro is the best fit for most traders because: It matches up directly with popular desks like rates trading , FX, and commodities.

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Valutico

APRIL 25, 2023

We performed a detailed linear regression analysis, considering the betas and credit spread of listed companies, regressed against their ESG scores, for the universe of listed companies globally. Upon entering this step, you have the choice to start or skip the ESG assessment.

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Valutico

APRIL 25, 2023

We performed a detailed linear regression analysis, considering the betas and credit spread of listed companies, regressed against their ESG scores, for the universe of listed companies globally. Upon entering this step, you have the choice to start or skip the ESG assessment.

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Brian DeChesare

AUGUST 31, 2022

But before delving into the best candidates for these roles, typical trades, careers, and more, let’s start with the basic definitions: What is a Convertible Arbitrage Hedge Fund? If the stock price goes up or down by 10%, but the volatility stays the same, you might not earn or lose anything on the trade.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In this post, I will start with a working definition of riskt that we can get some degree of agreement about, and then look at multiple measures of risk, both at the company and country level. In closing, I will talk about some of the more dangerous delusions that undercut good risk taking. What is risk?

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

That may reflect the concern that once a person or entity starts borrowing to fund its needs, it is easy to overuse debt, and risk its wellbeing in the process. In that case, the optimal debt ratio for a company is the one that maximizes value, not necessarily the one at which the cost of capital is minimized.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 12, 2021

I also start thinking about my passion, which is teaching, the spring semester to come, and the classes that I will be teaching, repeating a process that I have gone through every year since 1984, my first year as a teacher. Face up to uncertainty, rather than avoid or deny it : Uncertainty is a feature of investing/ business, not a bug.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

If you start enumerating every risk a business is exposed to, you will find yourself being overwhelmed by that list, and it is for that reason that I categorize risk into the groupings that I described in an earlier post on risk.

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Brian DeChesare

JUNE 29, 2022

And similar to long/short equity hedge funds , they target undervalued and misunderstood companies and profit when the rest of the market catches up. The typical approach goes like this: Start accumulating a small stake in a public company’s equity. Once the stake reaches 5% – which requires disclosure via a 13-D filing in the U.S. –

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Brian DeChesare

AUGUST 10, 2022

But before delving into the exit opportunities and the long-term outlook, let’s start with the fundamentals: Oil & Gas Investment Banking Defined. Because the risk of searching for new energy sources and experimentally drilling is so high, many E&P firms set up joint ventures to distribute the risk. Deal Presentation.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I was planning to start this post by telling you that Tesla was back in the news, but that would be misleading, since Tesla never leaves the news. As a lead in to updating the company’s valuation, it makes sense to start with the stock price, the market’s barometer for the company's health.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 31, 2024

In this post, I start by looking at the end game for businesses, and how that choice plays out in investment rules for these businesses, and then examine how much businesses generated in profits in 2023, scaled to both revenues and invested capital. The End Game in Business If you start a business, what is your end game?

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Equity Book Value Start-ups Corporate Finance 79

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

First, these categorizations were created close to twenty years ago, when I first started looking a global data, and many countries that were emerging markets then have developed into more mature markets now. Beta & Risk 1. Consequently, I do report industry averages for the two fastest growing emerging markets in India and China.

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Brian DeChesare

MAY 24, 2023

But, as usual, I want to start with the definitions and fund types: What is an “Event-Driven Hedge Fund”? Translating that to English: “We can grow more quickly and get higher margins without CMS, so our multiples will increase, and our share price will go up.” For example, if Jacobs trades up from an 11.5x

Equity 64

Equity Start-ups EBITDA Banking 64

Brian DeChesare

DECEMBER 6, 2023

They do this by setting up entire teams (“pods”) for specific sectors, having each team learn their stocks or other securities in-depth, and then trading frequently based on catalysts and changes in investor sentiment. Beta-Neutral Portfolios: For example, if the S&P 500 goes up or down by 5%, your team’s portfolio should move by ~0%.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

In my last post, I talked about the ritual that I go through every year ahead of my teaching each spring, and in this one, I will start on the first of a series of posts that I make at the start of each year, where I look at data, both macro and company-level. That is not true! Cost of Equity 1. PE & PEG 2. Cost of Debt 2.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 22, 2021

Zomato, an Indian online food-delivery company, was opened up to public market investors on July 14, 2021, and its market debut is being watched for clues by a number of other online ventures in India, waiting in the wings to go public. The Zomato IPO clocks in at 420 pages , much of it designed to bore readers into submission.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The graph below, from the Pew Research Center, is a good starting point, since it highlight the shift in the share of aggregate US income flowing to upper, middle and lower income households. Put simply, if stocks are up 20% in 2021 and down in 2022, would taxpayers get refunds on their taxes paid in 2021?

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Brian DeChesare

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Most dedicated distressed funds offer less liquidity and longer lock-up periods than other hedge funds, and they tend to hold positions for months or years with fairly concentrated portfolios. So, I would expect distressed performance to improve, especially as companies start to feel the effects of higher rates.

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Brian DeChesare

JULY 19, 2023

I’ll answer both questions here, but I want to start with a few definitions: What is a Long-Only Hedge Fund? But this is extremely difficult because very few sizable companies have negative Betas – and when they do, it’s usually due to an anomaly or special situation. If these firms were closer in size and history (e.g., $3

Equity 52

Equity Beta Banking Start-ups 52

Brian DeChesare

JULY 27, 2022

Credit Hedge Fund Definition: Credit hedge funds buy and sell fixed-income securities, such as high-yield bonds, distressed bonds, structured credit, and their derivatives; they profit by setting up trades that reduce one type of credit risk while betting on mispriced securities whose prices are likely to change in the future.

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Equity Start-ups Private Equity Firm Beta 52

FE International

MARCH 14, 2018

If your goal is to take advantage of a particular market or environment that is showing immense growth, but you lack the necessary insight to come up with a killer app, there are ways to build the knowledge you need. For example, Shopify is an e-commerce platform that allows online retailers to easily set up a digital storefront.

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Value Scope

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It started sometime last year, during the fourth quarter. Adjustments to Beta can accomplish this. Beta measures systemic risk, and the performance of a company as compared with a broad index like the S&P 500 or the Russell 2000. The re-levered Beta for the private company we were valuing was 0.56.

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